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__NOTOC__<nomobile>[[File:Banner2.png|link=]]</nomobile><div class="portal" style="width:85%;">[[File:Elizabeth_I_when_a_Princess.jpg|left|thumb|150px]]==[[Was Elizabeth I Justified in having her Cousin Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland Executed?]]=='''Featured Article'''
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[[File:NOLA kidnapping jacket photo (2)American_Girls_in_Red_Russia.jpg|thumbnail|left|thumb|100px150px]]====[[Voodoo, Kidnapping and Race American Girls in New Orleans during ReconstructionRed Russia: Interview with Michael A. RossJulia Mickenberg]]====Julia L. Mickenberg'''Featured Interview'''In October, s new book American Girls in Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream published by the Oxford University of Chicago Press will be publishing The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Raceexplores the history of the American women who went to Russia looking for adventure, freedom, Lawrevolution, work and new life. After they moved to Russia they found challenges and hardships. Many were disturbed by both the conditions of the country and Justice in the Reconstruction Era treatment of people by Michael A. Ross, an Associate Professor at the University of Marylandnew government. {{Read more|Interview:Voodoo, Kidnapping and Race American Girls in New Orleans during ReconstructionRed Russia: Interview with Michael A. RossJulia Mickenberg}}
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[[File:American_ColossusGermanHyperChart.jpegjpg|right150px|thumbthumbnail|100pxleft]] ====[[Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten BooklistWhat Were the Causes of Germany's Hyperinflation of 1921-1923?]]===='''Featured Booklist'''Creating a Top Ten List for Among the defining features of early twentieth century Europe and one of the contributing factors to World War II, was the economic maelstrom known as “hyperinflation” that ravaged Germany from 1921 until 1923. Although the Gilded Age/Progressive Era short period is challenging. There are an extraordinary number often overlooked in popular histories of outstanding books the period, there is no denying the impacts that the process had on this periodGermany, Europe, and the world. These books are a selection of our favorites. {{Read more|Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten BooklistWhat Were the Causes of Germany's Hyperinflation of 1921-1923?}}
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[[File:626px-Edwin_Smith_Papyrus_v2_copy32936173946 bc0836c5c5 o.jpg|thumbnail|left|thumb|100px200px]] ====[[How When did Medicine develop abortion become legal in the Ancient WorldUnited States?]]====As the calendar flipped from June to July in 1863 GettysburgIn colonial America, a small market town founded abortion was dealt with in the soft, rolling hills of south central Pennsylvania on Samuel Gettys farm half a century before, was unknown manner according to most AmericansEnglish common law. Four days laterAbortion was typically only frowned upon, on July 4or penalized, when it occurred after “quickening,”—when a woman felt fetal movement—because it suggested that the fetus had become "The Most Famous Small Town in Americamanifested into its own separate being. Quickening could vary from women to woman," and sometimes as late as boosters would come to call itfour months.{{Read more|How When did Medicine develop abortion become legal in the Ancient WorldUnited States?}}
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[[File:Germany_and_the_Origins_of_the_Second_World_WarAncient_ziggurat.jpg|right150px|thumbthumbnail|100pxleft]]====[[Causes What Was the Importance of World War II Top Ten BooklistZiggurats in Ancient Mesopotamia?]]====The second world war was arguably the most catastrophic war in human history. The origins people of the second world war in Europe ancient Mesopotamia practiced a religion that modern scholars are complex only just now beginning to understand and controversial. The following article is a list of ten books that provide different perspectives on the root causes physical focal point of their religion were the second worldmonumental, triangular structures known as ziggurats. {{Read more|Causes What Was the Importance of World War II Top Ten BooklistZiggurats in Ancient Mesopotamia?}}
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[[File:BritishmuseumassyrianrelieftwohorsemennimrudImmigrants_Ellis.jpg|thumbnail|left|thumb|100px200px]]====[[How has the Role of Horses Changed in Human Societies?Working Toward Whiteness by David Roediger]]====David Roediger’s book <i>Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White: The horse today is often seen as an animal useful for recreation, sport, transport, Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs</i> continues his provocative exploration of whiteness studies by examining how southern and work. The nature eastern European immigrants became white during the first half of the horse, however, has changed in different societies across timetwentieth century. Sometimes horses were seen as war animalsRoediger argues that “the long, while in other places and periods there use was the privy of royaltycircuitous process by which ‘new immigrants’ became ‘white ethnics’” matters.{{Read more|How has the Role of Horses Changed in Human Societies?Working Toward Whiteness by David Roediger}}
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[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1981-070-15, Frankreich, Panzer IVMarco Polo traveling.jpgjpeg|left|rightthumbnail|thumb|100px200px]] ====[[How Did What Is the German Military Develop BlitzkriegHistory of Ice Cream?]]====The early German victories in Poland, Norway, France, the Low CountriesIce cream has been a popular treat that many see today as having developed relatively recently, as ice cream usually requires a form of refrigeration. While the Balkans, North Africa, and Russia modern form an impressive list of military triumphs. What was ice cream is relatively morerecent, these triumphs were accomplished with great speed and fairly modest cost to the Germansidea of ice cream has been present for millennia. IndeedIce treats, which eventually gave us ice cream, these victories were so striking that they gave rise to the myth refreshing snacks usually reserved for elites or those who can obtain ice in times of German military supremacy—a myth that has persisted to this daywarm or hot weather.{{Read more|How Did What Is the German Military Develop BlitzkriegHistory of Ice Cream?}}
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[[File:Taming_ManhattanTod des Spartacus by Hermann Vogel.jpg|thumbnail|left|thumb|100px200px]]====[[Interview:Pigs, Parks, and Power in What was the Antebellum City: Interview with Catherine McNeurimpact of Spartacus' uprising on Rome? ]]====Two hundred years ago, instead of being littered Spartacus was a Thracian and he had once fought with gleaming glass towers and skyscrapersthe Romans. According to Plutarch, Manhattan he was home enslaved by them after he had deserted. Due to thousands of wandering pigs his strength and livestockmilitary skills he was trained as a gladiator. Antebellum Manhattan bore little resemblance In 73BC, he plotted to modern Manhattan's gleaming skylineescape from his gladiatorial school, near Capua in southern Italy and was joined in the conspiracy by up to 100 other gladiators. {{Read more|Interview:Pigs, Parks, and Power in What was the Antebellum City: Interview with Catherine McNeurimpact of Spartacus' uprising on Rome?}}
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[[File:The_Straight_StateHoecke_Croesus_showing_his_treasures.jpg|thumbnail|rightleft|thumb|100px200px]]====[[History of Sex (American Version) Top Ten BooklistHow Did Croesus Become the Wealthiest Man in the Ancient World?]]====These are our Top Ten History According the fifth century BC Greek historian Herodotus, who has often been called the “father of Sex books history,” the Lydian King Croesus (American Versionruled ca. 560-540s BC)was the world’s wealthiest king who ruled the world’s wealthiest kingdom. As per usualWhen Salon, we included some caveats and and explanations for our selections.Firstthe legendary Athenian law giver, came to Lydia see the king’s wealth personally, this is Croesus immediately had his servants “take him on a history tour of sex / history the royal treasuries” in order to “point out the richness and magnificence of sexuality list. We understand that there is a distinction but, for us, these two things blur togethereverything. ”{{Read more|History of Sex (American Version) Top Ten BooklistHow Did Croesus Become the Wealthiest Man in the Ancient World?}}
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====[[How did ancient Professional Armies developWhat if the Vikings Never Invaded England?]]====[[File:600px-Victory stele The Viking, or more accurately Danish and Norsemen, invasions of Naram Sin 9066.jpg||left|thumb|100px]]Warfare has been a constant throughout human history and conflict can certainly be traced back to our hominid ancestors England in our evolutionary past. While technology today is often used as the distinguishing characteristic of warfare, 9th century CE (865) helped lead to what ultimately would become the development united country of the professional armyEngland. Before 865, that is fulltime soldiers and formations of a standing armyEngland was divided into four or sometimes more countries, was also an important factor in making warfare an affair conducted throughout the year populated by Angles and allowed the establishment of largeSaxons (or Anglo-scale states and empires to be possibleSaxons).{{Read more|How did ancient Professional Armies developWhat if the Vikings Never Invaded England?}}
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[[File:Plimpton 3221906roome_td_yale.jpgpng|thumbnail|right|thumbleft|100px250px]]====[[How Did Early Mathematics EvolveTheodore Roosevelt really save Football?]]====Mathematics today profoundly affects our societies In 1905, American football faced an crisis. Far to many young men were being killed while playing football and has had a lasting impact on science and technologyno one was taking any serious actions to reduce the risks. However, before Greek mathematicians developed many wonderful achievements in this area, what are The headline at the origins top of mathematics and how did this field evolve the right hand column in its early history?[1]''The Chicago Sunday Tribune'' on November 26, 1905 screamed, "Football Year's Death Harvest - Record Shows That Nineteen Players Have Been Killed; One Hundred Thirty-seven Hurt - Two Are Slain Saturday."{{Read more|How Did Early Mathematics EvolveTheodore Roosevelt really save Football?}}
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[[File:Privateering.jpg|thumbnail|left|150px]]====[[Privateering during the War of 1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert]]==Interviews==During the War 1812, US and Canadian privateers fought most of the naval battles between the United States and Great Britain. These are our interviews with historians discussing privateers were comprised of captains who were motivated by the promise of profit to fight for their new bookscountries. There was a strong legal framework in both the United States and Great Britain that normalized piracy. Canadian and American ship owners and investors took advantage of it and funded privateering outfits during the war. Needless to say, privateers were incredibly risky investments.{{#dplRead more|Privateering during the War of 1812:category=InterviewsInterview with Faye M. Kert}}
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====[[Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. Cayleff]]====
At the very end of the 19th Century, a new system called naturopathy was created by Benedict and Louisa Stroebel Lust. Unlike many of the 19th Century medical systems created, naturopathy has persevered to this day. Naturopathic healing was founded and based on number of influences including botanics, hydrotherapy, eclecticism, temperance and vegetarianism. {{Read more|Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. Cayleff}}
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<div class="portal">[[File:British_Lancers.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[Why did the Battle of the Somme largely fail to achieve its objectives?]]==Booklists==Includes The Battle of the Somme or the Somme Offensive was a series of battles that occurred during the Summer and Autumn of 1916. It involved British and French forces launching a massive assault on the German lines in an effort to break the stalemate on the Western Front. The Battle was primarily a battle between the Germans and the British. The offensive achieved very little and both Expert sides suffered heavy casualties. The British only advanced a few miles and User created Top Ten History Bookliststhe German lines held. The stalemate was not broken by the offensive.{{#dpl:category=Booklists|ordermethod=firsteditRead more|order=descending|count=15Why did the Battle of the Somme largely fail to achieve its objectives?}}
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====[[Origins of World War One - Top Ten Booklist]]====
The First World War was an incredibly destructive and wide ranging catastrophe. Not only did it dramatically change the map of Europe and the world and it led to further instability. The First World War was one of the most important wars in human history. There has long been a debate about the exact cause of the First World War. The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand triggered the war but its ultimate causes were far more complex. {{Read more|Origins of World War One - Top Ten Booklist}}
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====[[What was used for birth control in medieval Europe?]]====
Birth is a universal experience for humanity and therefore, so is conception. This makes the issue of contraception one which stretched back into antiquity. While this topic is frequently in modern news, the historic practices of contraception and the specific methods utilized are rarely touched upon. {{Read more|What was used for birth control in medieval Europe?}}
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====[[What was George Washington's military experience before the American Revolution?]]====
The Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to put George Washington in charge of the Continental Army in 1775. Washington was only 43 years old at the time, a gentleman planter and local Virginian politician. {{Read more|What was George Washington's military experience before the American Revolution?}}
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====[[How did Phillip II of Macedon change Ancient Greek history?]]====
Alexander the Great is one of the most famous men in history. However, it is generally recognized that Alexander’s achievements would have been impossible without his father, Philip II of Macedon, who reigned from 359 to 336 B.C. He is not as well-known as his son but he laid the foundations for the great Empire of Alexander.{{Read more|How did Phillip II of Macedon change Ancient Greek history?}}
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=====[[How did kitchens develop?]]=====
Few places in a home are as important or symbolic for our social bonds than the kitchen. In almost every culture, the kitchen serves not only as the place where food is prepared, but serves as a social hub for families and friends. Humans develop deep social bonds with family and friends in their kitchen. The kitchen does not simply provide for our daily nutrition but also helps to reinforce our social character. Whether humans are cooking around a fire or chopping vegetables on a granite counter-top, they are also interacting with one another. {{Read more|How did kitchens develop?}}
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====[[When did the First Heart Transplant take place?]]====
When Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967, it was initially seen as remarkable scientific achievement, but overtime both the medical community and the general public were forced to re-evaluate heart transplants. The medical community quickly realized that the first transplants were little more than dangerous and unpredictable experiments.{{Read more|When did the First Heart Transplant take place?}}
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====[[Why Did Helen Keller Become a Socialist?]]====
Helen Keller (1880–1967) is best known for her triumph over blindness, deafness, and muteness. Rescued from the isolation of her afflictions as a young girl by the Perkins Institute for the Blind teacher Anne Sullivan, Keller learned to understand a basic form of sign language and learned to “feel” and imitate the sound of the human voice. {{Read more|Why Did Helen Keller Become a Socialist?}}
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====[[When was Mesothelioma First Diagnosed?]]====
The history of Mesothelioma is complicated. Medicine struggled to establish its existence and understand what caused it. Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer that forms on the "tissues that cover the lungs and abdomen." Mesothelioma is typically tied to the exposure of people to asbestos in either their environment or workplace.{{Read more|When was Mesothelioma First Diagnosed?}}
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====[[The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter: Interview with Bonnie S. Anderson]]====
History is fickle. During the 19th Century, Ernestine Rose was one of the most important and famous international advocates for feminism, free thought and anti-slavery. She worked closely with renowned figures in this movement such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Despite her contributions to feminism, atheism, and anti-slavery, since her death she has slowly been erased from history. {{Read more|The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter: Interview with Bonnie S. Anderson}}
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====[[When did Men Start Wearing Pants?]]====
Why did humans start wearing pants? To answer this question it’s important to understand two things - first, what were the earliest forms of clothing and how did they evolve into pants and secondly, why did a need for pants develop? It is also helpful to define what is meant by pants - specifically a bifurcated garment for the bottom half of the body which covers from waist to the lower leg. It is also helpful to define what is meant by pants - specifically a bifurcated garment for the bottom half of the body which covers from waist to the lower leg. {{Read more|When did Men Start Wearing Pants?}}
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====[[What Mistakes did the Allies make during Operation Overlord on D-Day?]]====
June 6, 1944 was arguably the most pivotal day of World War II. Operation Overlord was set to be launched and if successful, was to open a second front in Europe so as to attack Germany from all sides. Stalin’s Soviet Army had been battling the German Army since late 1942 in Stalingrad, Leningrad, and Moscow. {{Read more|What Mistakes did the Allies make during Operation Overlord on D-Day?}}
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====[[Book Review: "The Assassin's Accomplice."]]====
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Kate Clifford Larson's book The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln is a well-researched narrative exploring the prosecution of Mary Surratt. The Assassin’s Accomplice details the events that revolved around Mrs. Surratt in the days and weeks leading up to the assassination of President Lincoln.{{Read more|Book Review: "The Assassin's Accomplice."}}
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====[[How Did Black Pepper Spread in Popularity?]]====
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Visiting a restaurant in the Western world or even a home often means finding salt and black pepper as common condiments on the table used to give taste to our dishes. Salt has been native to many regions and is commonly found; however, black pepper was a far more limited plant (Piper nigrum) that natively grew in South and Southeast Asia.{{Read more|How Did Black Pepper Spread in Popularity?}}
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====[[American Revolution Top Ten Booklist]]====
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed by the Continental Congress. This act was only the first step towards the creation of the United States. The impact of this revolution cannot be ignored. {{Read more|American Revolution Top Ten Booklist}}
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====[[Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara]]====
In 1850, Allan Pinkerton founded a detective agency that would grow into the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Pinkerton's agency is easily the most famous and infamous security guard and detective agency in United States history. Pinkerton originally created the agency to help railroad companies investigate their employees and catch train robbers. But over time, the Pinkertons developed an intimate relationship with the federal government and as these partnerships grew the Pinkertons' role increased dramatically. {{Read more|Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara}}
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====[[How did Edwin Drake create the World's first oil well?]]====
Even though there was no one "first discover" of oil. Oil was known in antiquity when it was used to heal wounds. But by the middle of the 19th century methods for collecting oil from the ground had not changed for thousands of years. Edwin Drake's oil fundamentally changed this process and dramatically increased oil production around the world. {{Read more|How did Edwin Drake create the World's first oil well?}}
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====[[Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist]]====
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Creating a Top Ten List for the Gilded Age/Progressive Era is challenging. There are an extraordinary number of outstanding books on this period. These books are a selection of our favorites. Creating a Top Ten List for the Gilded Age/Progressive Era is challenging. There are an extraordinary number of outstanding books on this period. These books are a selection of our favorites. Most of these books are focused on trying to define this era as whole, instead of focusing on a single issue.{{Read more|Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist}}
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<div class="portal">[[File:Samuel_Hahnemann_1841.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[What was the dominant medical sect in the United States during the 19th Century?]]==Articles==Articles are wiki pages with history essays written Nineteenth-century medicine was characterized by our experts constant competition among three major medical sects: Regulars, Eclectics, and Homeopaths.[1] Each of these medical sects not only meaningfully disagreed on how to treat illnesses and diseases, but sought to portray their type of practice as the most effective and your contributionsscientific.{{#dpl:category=Wikis|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descendingRead more|count=15What was the dominant medical sect in the United States during the 19th Century?}}
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====[[Why did the Congress of Vienna fail to stop future European wars?]]====
The Congress of Vienna was a gathering of representatives of European kingdoms that was presided over by the Austrian Chancellor Klemens Von Metternich. The Congress was held in Vienna from 1814 to 1815. The goals of the Congress were to secure peace and stability in Europe and to ensure that revolutions did not destabilize the Continent. {{Read more|Why did the Congress of Vienna fail to stop future European wars?}}
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====[[History of God Top Ten Booklist]]====
The concept of God and his historical development is an extraordinarily complex topic and it is not easily addressed in ten books. These books seek attempt to explain a complex story on how the concept of God developed in different cultures, places, and across time. The history of the idea of God is long and has its roots from prehistoric to early historic periods in the ancient Near East. Later cultures developed concepts that derive from ancient Iran, Greece, Egypt, and perhaps other regions.{{Read more|History of God Top Ten Booklist}}
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====[[How historically accurate is Braveheart?]]====
Braveheart was a popular movie released in 1995 that won 5 Oscars and featured Mel Gibson as William Wallace. Wallace was a Scottish knight who became a hero in the Scottish rebellions against the English in the late 13th and early 14th century. The movie helped to inspire Scottish national pride while also, to some, represent an early, Medieval warrior who fought for freedom for himself and his people. While much of the story depicted did occur, including the English occupation of Scotland during the time of Edward I, king of England, the depiction of the revolt against the English and other events do not correspond well to historical accounts.{{Read more|How historically accurate is Braveheart?}}
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<div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File: Drysocks.JPG |thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[What Was the Importance of Bill Mauldin to WWII Infantrymen?]]==Categories==Below you can find Bill Mauldin once said that the category structure infantryman “gives more and gets less than anybody else.” He knew this from his experience on the front lines with K Company, 180th Infantry Regiment, of the wiki, as well 45th Division. Mauldin went through basic training as an infantryman and stayed with his regiment throughout the invasion of Sicily and the Allied campaign up the boot of Italy. The talented cartoonist succeeded in ruffling the feathers of the “brass” all the pages within each categoryway up to General George Patton.{{Read more|What Was the Importance of Bill Mauldin to WWII Infantrymen?}}</div> <categorytree modediv class=pages showcount"portal" style=on>History</categorytree"font-size:90%"> [[File:Florence_Cathedral.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[Why did the Italian Renaissance End?]]====The Italian Renaissance was one of the most exciting periods in human civilisation. It witnessed a great flourishing of the arts, literature, philosophy, architecture and politics. Many of the greatest figures in World Civilisation appeared during the Renaissance in Italy, including Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Machiavelli and Raphael.{{Read more|Why did the Italian Renaissance End?}}
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[[File:Gettysburg.jpeg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[Civil War Battles Top Ten Booklist]]====A DailyHistory.org top ten booklist focusing on best book on the battles of the American Civil War. The books on this list explore the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, and many others. Take a look at our list. {{Read more|Civil War Battles Top Ten Booklist}}</div> <div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:Stalingrad three.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px]] ====[[Why did Germany lose the Battle of Stalingrad?]]====Hitler saw the war in terms of his personal rivalry with Stalin and he decided to attack the city, because of its symbolic value. However, the original aim of the offensive in Southern Russian was to secure the oil fields in the Caucasus. The oil was essential for the German war machine. Hitler knew this – instead of opting for concentrating all his forces on the conquest of the oil fields, he made perhaps a fateful mistake.{{Read more|Why did Germany lose the Battle of Stalingrad?}}</div> <div class="portal" style="font-size:90%">[[File:portraitbowie.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[The Mysterious Illness of Jim Bowie: How Did He Contribute to His Own Decline?]]====Directly or indirectly, Jim Bowie’s enigmatic illness resulted from his own actions. 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